Maine Middle Eastern Ensemble performs folk, classical and Sufi music from the Turkish, Arabic, Armenian and Greek traditions. Led by multi-instrumentalist, Eric LaPerna, the group also features violinist, Michael Gallant; guitarist, Jeremey Zela; percussionists, Doug Andrews and Dorothy Barker, as well as other musicians from Maine’s vibrant Middle Eastern music community.

Mark Neslusan, bass Mark is originally from Oxford, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor's of Music in composition from the University of Lowell in 1985. After attending graduate school at the University of Texas, Mark began teaching music at Bucksport in 1986. He's taught vocal and instrumental music at all levels K-12. Mark has performed both …

SOPRANO Celine Mogielnicki is a versatile emerging artist, hailed for her “delicious” (Opera Today) and “finely balanced" (NY Times) singing, “perfect in diction and phrasing...with powerful gradations of emotions” (Millbrook Independent). In the 2022/2023 season she joins Opera Baltimore for Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw (Governess cover), the Long Island Choral Society as soprano …